Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.

Learn when to consider a feeding tube for ALS, how it supports nutrition, what you can still eat or drink, and options tailored to your needs.

They say it would not have prevented any of 23 feeding-tube misconnection events reported to the FDA between 2005 and 2016. "That's really a point of outrage for me," Buma said.

Instituted to show “cultural preference,” the U.S. military’s practice of using olive oil as a lubricant for tubes used in forced-feedings posed a health risk, a doctor testified Tuesday.

A 4-year-old Virginia girl, Faith Johnson, died days after her feeding tube was dislodged at her special needs school. Her family says they were not immediately notified and believe the incident ...

These feeding tubes have a piece inside the stomach and a type of clamp to keep them in place. Samantha Pecoraro, 14, has a permanent feeding tube in her stomach because nearly all foods trigger a ...

The unknown feeding tube in her body also created other complications that required more surgery, the lawsuit said. The woman is asking for an undetermined amount of damages to be decided by a ...

If a feeding tube is incorrectly inserted, it can damage the vocal cords, lungs or trachea, potentially leading to serious injury or death. Indeed, Avanos has received reports of 23 deaths and 60 ...

They say it would not have prevented any of 23 feeding-tube misconnection events reported to the FDA between 2005 and 2016. “That’s really a point of outrage for me,” Buma said.

National Patient Safety Agency (2005) Patient Safety Alert 05: How to Confirm the Correct Position ofNasogastric Feeding Tubes in Infants, Children and Adults. London: NPSA. NHS Quality Improvement ...

A MUM forced her completely healthy four-year-old son eat through a feeding tube forced into his stomach causing serious injury, cops say. Megan Gee was arrested last week and charged with faking m… ...

A mother has revealed that killer nurse Lucy Letby took a 'sickening' photo of her baby daughter with her feeding tube dislodged.. On the back of the photo Letby wrote: 'Caught in the act! (Baby's ...